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25 May 2018 4:20:43am

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You will need to back up an outrageous claim like "the scientific evidence about autism and face perception is so unclear" with a reference to a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Atypical face perception is a defining characteristic of autism and has been studied since the 1960s. Take this paper from 1988 ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3208000 ) "The results indicated a specific abnormality in the way autistic individuals perceive emotion, and possibly sex, in people's faces. In addition, however, autistic subjects' superior ability in matching upside-down faces suggested a more far-reaching abnormality in their perception of faces".

Have a search on Google Scholar ( http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=autism+OR+aspergers+face+OR+facial+OR+emotion&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2001&as_sdtp=on ). Can you find even a single article to contradict the conclusions of the hundreds of published papers in this area?

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